The concerts and performances are going to present latest works by some of the Austrian most
distinguished electroacoustic musicians and sound artists, who are going to present their
explorations of versatile manipulations of electronic and acoustic sounds. These media artists and
composers are expanding the contemporary understanding of Neue Musik style by constructing
computed environments, adopting elements of electronics and analogue sounds, thus creating a
dialog between improvisation, structure and spontaneity. In a two day sound soirée they will take
us to a rich arena of soundscapes with experimental noise, live programming and image
projections, presenting a diversity of sound and music genre, that can attract a variety of
demanding listeners.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 5th April, 2012 at 8pm
Josef Klammer: Drumming is an Elastic Term
latex and glass drums, electronics, solo concert
Josef Klammer is exploring the basic sounds of materials. His drums are equipped with
unusual membranes and played with strangely emphasised gestures. Glass membranes are
played to the limits of shattering, and elastic latex drum-heads are slowing down the sound
of the drums, making them breathe and pump. Silicon, as the key element in latex and
glass materials, functions as a conductor in the microchips of the musician's electronic
equipment. The concert is therefore a search for an audio experiences in the "silicon age".
Norbert Math: undo
laptop and microphone concert for a solo performer
Undo will be presented to the public for the first time at Kino Šiška. It employs a duet of
computer-controlled sirens along with live electronics. It is a study in psychoacoustic
phenomenon which is, as such, closely affiliated with the works of Hermann von
Helmholtz and Maryanne Amacher.
Seppo Gründler: Doing What Happens Anyway
computer extended guitar, monome, solo concert
The title Tun Was Geschieht [Doing What Happens Anyway] is a quote from The Man
Without Qualities by Robert Musil. The structured improvisation with electronic-guitar
starts with one of the possibilities to trigger a sound on the guitar. A very sensitive
processing PureData patch reacts on tiny changes. The resulting and following sounds and
acoustic dramaturgy develops in real-time alongside the evolving sounds and playing
techniques. The acoustic impressions are created instantly, in the area of conflict between
the flow and the structure.
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Katharina Klement (clavichord), Daniel Lercher (electronics): éclair
concert
Katharina Klement identifies herself as a structural improviser, where her preference is to
work with textures, organized/classified formations of different layers to create the
parameters for her work. In cooperation with Daniel Lercher they create dense improvised
sound textures resembling organic structures like clouds with contrasting percussive
elements. The details of processing the micro-structure of sounds and careful use of
dynamics leads to a performance different to typical egomaniac outbursts by the
improvisers. They are based in aesthetics of accuracy, making every acoustic expression
vibrate and sizzle.
Friday, 6th April, 2012 at 8pm
Klammer & Gründler Duo
Josef Klammer (drums, electronics), Seppo Gründler (extended guitar, electronics)
The performance is an exploration of attentive hearing, open-ear sound surgery, patching,
detecting and connecting, dispatching, padding and leaving, irruption, moulding to break
the mould, clear and peculiar. Klammer & Gründler Duo form a highly intelligent sound
pieces out of the souls of good-tempered, stretched forms of electroacoustic and digitalimprovised
music, ironically subduing new music’s controlling gestures. Their audio is
elaborate, precise, impulsive, puzzled, border-crossing and startling. More than ever, the
duo’s actual digital live-processing is designed for interaction, modulation and
restructuring.
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Dope Beat Rose Garden
Gernot Tutner (Heavy Dope Beats), Elisabeth Schimana (electronics), Norberth Math
(image projection and live programming)
Elisabeth Schimana deals with electronic textures and networks. In the collaboration with
Gernot Tutner Dope Beat Rosegarden she explores technoid rhythms. They accent the
quieter notes and slow tempo that is highly uncommon for techno, and a gracious sleek
groove with the focus on what is "in-between". Furthermore, Gernot Tutner is not
interested in roots or idols, he wants a live set which is open to improvisation. Gernot
Tutners Heavy Dope Beats embedded in Elisabeth Schimanas digital Rosegarden is a
conceptional back-beat, raw and open, with 1000 tiny sound peaks, whispering roses and
24 crackling oscillators.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Josef Klammer. Born 1958, Lienz/Easttirol/Austria. Worked initially as a photographer, studied drums at Music University Graz. Since the mid 80s the
he has worked continuously as musician and media artist, developing instruments and sound whilst
maintaining his involvement in research and the transformation of media potentials for music. In
1994 he received Award for computer music by Ministry of Art and Science, in 2003 Elektronic
Award. He composed music for TV and movies; radio plays and radio programs for the ORF
(Austrian Braodcast Corporation). He conducted stage music for productions at theatres in
Hamburg, Stuttgart, Schwerin, Gera, Ljubljana, Klagenfurt, Linz and Graz and in Wiener
Festwochen and numerous regular concerts and recordings with a wide variety of ensembles
playing New Improvised Electronic and Experimental Music. [More]
Josef (Seppo) Gründler. Born 1956, lives in Graz. Holds position as Prof. Dr. Josef (Seppo) Gründler (AT), head of Media and Interaction Design, FH
JOANNEUM. He is a sound and media artist, »tinkerer« of software and electronics. His main
instruments are guitar, electronics, and software. He is also head of master degree programme
»Media and Interaction Design« at University of Applied Science FH JOANNEUM Graz, visiting
professor of sound design at Donau-University Krems, member of board of directors of the Institute
for Media Archeology, president of the Society for Dissemination and Distribution of New Music.
He works in the field of new media since 1982. He has composed music for computer games, music
for theatre, film, media- and sound installations. Presented his works at Ars Electronica, Wiener
Festwochen, Steirischer Herbst, the Knitting Factory New York, Sonambiente Berlin, Transmediale
Berlin, »See the Sound«, City of Women Festival Ljubljana, Fine senca fine – Venice, Trentino,
Budapest, Graz, etc. The creator of various cds under vnm.mur.at and elise.or.at. [More]
Klammer & Gründler Duo have been working on the implementation of their “New Improvised
Electronic Music” for over 20 years, creating pieces like Razionalnik – first multilateral telematic
midi concert, Im Trockenraum – Austrias first earphones concert for 100 earphones, RGB –
synchronizing two ensembles (Berlin/Graz) via TV pictures, numerous sound installations, music
for theatre and radiophonic pieces. The “Klammer-Gründler Interface” transforms its individual
parts in real-time, boils its modules, condenses the parameters and scatters the variables. They
request deconcentrated concentration, aggressively and calmly.
Elisabeth Schimana. Has been working as a composer, performer and radio artist since 1983. She
studied electroacoustic and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts
Vienna and musicology and ethnology at the University of Vienna. Her work concentrated for many
years on relations between space / body / electronic. She has ongoing cooperations with the
Austrian Kunstradio and the Theremincenter Moscow. She also focus on research in the field of
women, art and technology. Projects: Virus #1 (2011); MODELLS (2011); Good News im
QuotenJournal (2011); Sternenstaub (2010); Taktfrequenz (2009); Höllenmaschine | Hell Machine (2009); Le midi alla turca (2009); on tesar (2006, 2008); die große partitur | the great score (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006); Moskwa (2005); ein dorf tut nichts | a village does nothing (2000, 2001); vibrate space. [More]
Gernot Tutner. Since 2000 Gernot Tutner is an active part of the electronic club scene in Graz, acting there as DJ,
live performer and promoter. In 2003 he began his three-year employment at the Institute of
Electronic Music and Acoustics, working with Seppo Gründler, Johannes Zmölnig, Winfrid Ritsch
and many other inspiring people. This period marked a step towards the improvised electronic
music scene. In 2004 Gernot Tutner joined with friends to found the music collective 'moonbootz
recordings'. Since then he is playing club sounds under this label, recently under the artistic name
Henry Bootz. In that same year, he also started to play electronic computer based live performances
in his own production. He often collaborates with other musicians, with Gerald Schauder aka
Kabelton in techno project 'Liquid Rotz' or with Seppo Gründler in the improvised project
'pd~Hendrix'. Since 2006 he is part of V:NM festival as technical assistant. Currently he focuses on
club-friendly sounds, mainly Berlin underground Techno. When it comes to projects dealing with
New Music he sticks to the basics of dance music, but loves to take the opportunity to leave those
disco patterns. [More]
Katharina Klement. Born 1963, Graz, lives in Vienna. She is a composer, pianist and improviser who has earned her
reputation as an active personality in the pulse of the independent new music and experimental
scene in Vienna and abroad. "Composer-performer" in the field of composed and improvised,
instrumental and electronic music, crosses over projects in the areas of music- text- video. She is
specially interest in piano and its extended techniques and sound installations. She is a founder and
member of several ensembles for improvised music. Held many concerts in Austria and abroad,
including Festival Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg, Tage für Neue Musik Zürich, Festival Inventionen
Berlin, Festival Midi-Alternativa Moscow, Donaufestival Krems, Festival Wien Modern, Artoteca
Milano, „Secca“ North Carolina, "roulette" New York). Founded her own CD label KalK, and
published several publications. She teaches Electroacoustic music, Composition, Improvisation at
the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. [More]
Daniel Lercher. Born in the Austrian countryside, currently residing in Vienna. Graduate of the course for computer
music and electronic media at the institute for composition and electro-acoustics Vienna.
works with sound. [More]
éclair (Katharia Klement: clavichord; Daniel Lercher: electronics)
The duo fathoms out unusual instrumental playing techniques in combination with live-electronic
transformations. It uses diverse material, from sine waves up to noisy layering and percussive
patterns and moves in the context of composition as well as improvisation. Symbiotic relations
between sound material and its mirroring in instrumental and electronic transformations build up a
new complex hyper instrument.
Norbert Math. Is an artist active in the fields of radio art, electronic music, installation, and Internet.
He studied at the Academy of Music, Vienna (institute for electro-acoustics). He is co-founder
(with Andrea Sodomka, Martin Breindl, and August Black) of alien productions, an artist's network
for theory and aesthetics of new technology and media. Norbert Math was born 1962 in Bozen,
Italy and works in Vienna, Austria. [More]
Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2012
Artistic Director: Janez Janša
Executive Producer: Marcela Okretič
Assistant Production: Sonja Grdina
Public Relations: Mojca Zupanič
Coproduction: Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Ljubljana
Project supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture
and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia, and the Municipality of Ljubljana
Sponsor: Datacenter d.o.o.
Media sponsor: Radio Študent
CONTACT
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